The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1887-04-15

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ingtOn OH Thursday.
The Illinois Senate passed bill Il
indemnify owners OF property for dam
ages caused by mobs.
by an explosion i'm coal mine al
Savannah, Indian Territory twelve
Italians lost their lives.
Lord Scully OH Thursday purchased
fifteen hundred acres of land neal
Cayuga, Illinois, for $45, 200.
The cotton factors and buyers of
New Orleans have resolved to employ
no members of the labor unions.
Spencer Smith, an attorney Of
Council Bluffs, has been appointed
railroad commissioner of Iowa.
Colonel r. G Ingersoll, who was on
Friday admitted to practice in the
courts of New York, refused to be
sworn.
Buffalo Bill sailed from New York
on Thursday for London with steam.
ship-lOad OF Indians and wild an
lmalS.
A steamer carrying eleven hundred
Cinnamon, with smallpox among
them, arrived Monday at San Fran.
cisco.
Forty persons were killed or in
jured on Sunday at Linguagloss,
Sicily, by the collapse of church
roof.
The Legislature of Connecticut has
passed ten-hour law for women and
children, the same as that of Mass
| achusetts.
Robert L. Lincoln offers the SPRING
field homestead to the State of Hi
nois OH condition that it be preserved
with care.
William Kyle, a wholesale liquor
dealer Of Toronto, has been sentenced
to five years III the penitentiary for
forging notes.
PleurO-pneumOnia has been almost
suppressed at Boston, but has appear
ed in the herd of Mr.. Barrow, ut Sa-
lem, New York.
Queen Victoria arrived at Cannes,
Friday, amid the cheers of the people
and salute by the French Mediter-
ranean squadron.
The British house of commons
passed clOture by vote of 36l to 253,
and agreed upon the first reading of
the coercion bill.
Six men were frightfully burned by
an explosion of molten metal in the
Edgar Thomson steel-works ut Brad
dock, Pennsylvania.
A statue of Schuyler ColfaX is to be
unveiled at indianapolis, May 8, by the
Odd-fellows. The figure is being cast
in bronze at Chicago.
1t is rumored in New York that Mrs.
John A. Logan is preparing for publ
cation a novel treating of society at
the national capital.
The captain Of the yacht Dauntless
attributes his defeat i'll the recent race
to the interference of the owner, Mr..
Colt, who was OH board.
Miss Catherine Wolfe, of New York,
known throughout the United States
for her wealth and benevolence, eX-
pired Monday morning.
A tract of land seven miles from
Denver, proffered by committee of
citizens, has been accepted by General
Sheridan for military post.
Wreckage discovered in Duena Vista
bay, Newfoundland, serves to confirm
the rumored loss of the sailing steam
Ell Eagle. with crew of 2oO men.
The District Attorney at New York
has decided to bring Jacob Sharp to
trial in May for completely III the
Broadway Surface Railroad bribery.
Farm lands in the vicinity of Cool
idge, Kansas, have since Friday adj
vanced to $3.50 per acre, on account OF
the development of two veins OF coal.
Henry M. Stanley writes that the
British fleet at Zanzibar has given way
to the German, and that traders OF the
latter nationality are in the majority.
Herr Most, since his release from q
New York prison, promises to be more
outspoken in his anarchiSm than ever,
and to seek out scandals among the
rich.
A gentleman in Washington has re-
ceived advices from England that the
condition of Secretary Manning is
worse than when he sailed from New
York.
The birthday of General Grant will
be celebrated Dy the AmerlcuS club OF
Pittsburg by Il banquet OH April q.
Roscoe Conkling has promised to
attend.
The Chief Justice of Montana has
decided that commercial travellers
representing foreign houses can not be
compelled to pay the Territorial
license.
Judge J. V. Eustace was on Thurs
day stricken with paralysis at Oregon,
Illinois, while OH the way to the court
house, and when lifted up was unable
to speak.
The indictments recently found
against present and former commits
sioners of Cook county Ill. number
200, and against wardens and con-
tractors 102.
The Montgomery and Atlanta mill
tary companies have resolved to with
draw from the Washington drill be-
cause of the admission of colored or
CARNATIONS.
William Kssane Rogers, wealthy
citizen Of Sonoma, California. is said
to be the notorious William Kissane
who was indicted in New York for
forgery in 1854.
In st. Petersburg, while the Gar
was exercising in the park connected
with the Gatshina palace, lie was shot
at by an army officer, the bullet passing
close to his person.
The rumor has been revived at
Washington that General John M.
Palmer is to be appointed minister to
Austria, if his son fails to secure the
district iudpeShiD.